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I'm gonna go with Justinian on this one.
Who can argue with that?

Humans are born with a predisposition toward selfishness... but also with a predisposition toward altruism and empathy. It varies from human to human, and both things by large help us survive.
Most of our evil comes from our innate cluelessness and the limits of our brains to make sense out the universe... while being inclined to do so.

We must learn both emotionally and cognitively to be good. But we also must learn to be evil.
Without learning either, we are generally just ignorant and unthoughtful. The undersocialized human doesn't mean to hurt anyone... but doesn't understand
how not to... and to some extent, we're all like this. We always do dumb things and don't understand just how dumb it is until we are called on it...
Then we either rationalize it away or learn a lesson.

Truly evil people are a rarity, both of genetic mind disorders and terrible social circumstances.

<blockquote data-quote="JavaBlack" data-source="post: 14516" data-attributes="member: 542">...I&#039;m gonna go with Justinian on this one.Who can argue with that?Humans are born with a predisposition toward selfishness... but also with a predisposition toward altruism and empathy.&nbsp; It varies from human to human, and both things by large help us survive.Most of our evil comes from our innate cluelessness and the limits of our brains to make sense out the universe... while being inclined to do so.We must learn both emotionally and cognitively to be good.&nbsp; But we also must learn to be evil.Without learning either, we are generally just ignorant and unthoughtful.&nbsp; The undersocialized human doesn&#039;t mean to hurt anyone... but doesn&#039;t understandhow not to... and to some extent, we&#039;re all like this.&nbsp; We always do dumb things and don&#039;t understand just how dumb it is until we are called on it...Then we either rationalize it away or learn a lesson.Truly evil people are a rarity, both of genetic mind disorders and terrible social circumstances.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JavaBlack, post: 14516, member: 542"] [b]...[/b] I'm gonna go with Justinian on this one. Who can argue with that? Humans are born with a predisposition toward selfishness... but also with a predisposition toward altruism and empathy. It varies from human to human, and both things by large help us survive. Most of our evil comes from our innate cluelessness and the limits of our brains to make sense out the universe... while being inclined to do so. We must learn both emotionally and cognitively to be good. But we also must learn to be evil. Without learning either, we are generally just ignorant and unthoughtful. The undersocialized human doesn't mean to hurt anyone... but doesn't understand how not to... and to some extent, we're all like this. We always do dumb things and don't understand just how dumb it is until we are called on it... Then we either rationalize it away or learn a lesson. Truly evil people are a rarity, both of genetic mind disorders and terrible social circumstances. [/QUOTE]

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